Who's sailing April 18-22, 2004 - gotta start this sometime!!

[DVCLady]

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[SCOTTOHIOCPA]

thebets57 - I have to fly down to Miami for my job about once a year. Last time I was there, I went out to Key Largo with my snorkeling equipment, but I left my swim fins at home. I just wore water shoes and I did not have any trouble. Based on this, I plan on leaving our swim fins at home. My snorkeling style may be more relaxed than yours, however, and you may want them.

 

[disneysailor]

travel with kids- When you spoke to the DCL rep, did she mention if you sign up as soon as you get on the ship or if they start taking reservations at a later time? Also, did she say where the sign up would be? I think you sign up for the bridge tour and the wine tasting when you get on too. Does anyone know if that's true? The closer the trip gets, the more disorganized I feel .

I admire those of you who can pack so little, I just can't weed out. Maybe I'll pull everything out and try again at the beginning of next week. I do know I DON'T want to do laundry on the ship!

Becky is still stuffy with a cough. She has a big gym show tomorrow night, so I hope she is feeling better (she keeps saying she's fine, but I know she doesn't want to miss school, so it's hard to tell). Here's hoping the cold leaves her and stays away from the rest of us! How is your daughter feeling sopandbass? Hopefully better!

See you soon!

 

[goofy601]

Can we do that? Can the first one of us that gets on board and in line for Palo's make the ressies for ALL of us that want to go to the brunch? That would be simpliest...ok - previous sailors - this is the test...

We're going on a MICKEY SHIP! HIP HIP HOORAY!

We are waiting to hear if we got this house we found - it would be absolutely perfect for us - 5 bedrooms and 4 baths - living room, full basement, full kitchen and dining area, breakfast room - HUGE room for DH's pool table room (only if we get this house) a room for me to have all my creative memories gear...it would be awesome - come on guy - call us back! Keep your fingers crossed all - I'm pulling out my hair here!!

Have to finish getting dinner together...we're going on a MICKEY SHIP! - HIP HIP HOORAY~!

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[goofy601]

p.s. if we can do that - DH and I and disney4Cori want ressies for brunch!



- lunch without the kids!

 

[travel with kids]

Thebets57-Palo Brunch can be made on the first day in Palos.

Goofy601-I do not know if we can make ressies for other people. Somewhere I remember reading that you have to do this in person. Does anyone know? Let me get through the last couple days of my class and then I will call. Or if someone else calls, please let us know.

Disneysailor--I have way too much stuff!! As I tried on different outfits, I would change my shoes. When I was done with all my day wear and evening wear, I had 7 pairs of shoes!! I need to make some adjustments!!

Scottohiocpa-you forgot the tie countdown on your last posting !!

I have read that it is cool/cold in the theaters and dinning rooms. For those of you who have traveled DCL before, how cold is cold? Remember, we are Maine!!

I have a ton of school work (for my class and for my work) and still cleaning the house (for the house sitters)!! Everyone stay warm !!......Lee

 

[sopandbass]

Our DD-Isabel's fever is up a bit today from yesterday. But she seems to be perking up this evening. I'm desparate enough to offer her candy and cookies if she'll just get better.

At least she's doing this now, instead of hours before we have to leave. I'm sure she'll be better by next week. Thank you for sending healing thoughts her way.

This week is busy for me because I'm a church musician. Is it wrong that in the middle of directing Lenten songs I'm thinking about Mickey Mouse?

For those of you who celebrate the holidays, I hope you have a blessed Easter or you're having a good Passover.

 

[SCOTTOHIOCPA]

We're doing the single digits dance! Can't wait for next Friday at 5:00 pm. In fact, I'll probably go into my boss' office next Friday and beg him to let me leave a little early that day. OK, a lot early that day.

Mrs. SCOTTOHIOCPA had her former boss at work beg her to stay, so she might end up working a little longer. By the way, I don't know if we mentioned that she's an accountant, too. That's how we met at college.

I noticed today that it will be a new moon on April 19th, so the stars will really be out at night.


Scott's countdown to the Mickey ship:
6 more ties!

 

[thebets57]

Sopandbass and Disneysailor - sorry to hear about your sick DD's!!!!! Let's hope they are all better, and not contagious by the 18th!!!

SCOTTOHIOCPA - Thanks for the tip on the fins. I am inclined to leave them home as well. We wil have to see what room we have when we pack (the night before at some ongodly hour - LOL!!)

Goofy601 - Your new house sounds awesome!!! SO BIG!!! Who will clean all that square footage??? Good luck!!

Travelwithkids - DON'T take 7 pairs of shoes!!! Take if from me, NO ONE is paying attention, and I'm sure your family doesn't care....Just keep it simple - basic travel shoes (one pair - sneakers), sandals for the day at sea/ CC / Nassau (one pair), and one or two evening shoes. Keep it light - who will be carrying your bag afterall...I'm truly a conservative packer, and after 7 cruises, I STILL come home with clothes I never put on my back. Everything is basically casual.

We're getting so close - before you know it, Easter will have passed, and we all will be scrambling to finish the last minute details before setting sail...Can't wait!!!!! We leave the 14th...!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[bostonlass]

goofy - WOW...that's a huge house!!! I'm so jealous!!! I always wish we didn't live in Mass so that we could afford a big house with lots of land but unfortunately I have to live close to my ex husband since he takes the kids every Tues and every other weekend.

Well...I just spent 4 hours cleaning my house in preparation for the slumber party from heck. Finally people rsvp'd so we have 4 8 yr olds showing up at 6:30pm Thursday night. I have prepared a schedule so we'll see how that goes. I bought Nickelodian trivia tonight so that will be fun (for me too ) to play. I think we'll bring it with us to play on the plane too.

I have major bigtime butterflies in my stomach regarding this trip!!! I think it just is beginning to hit me that we're flying on a plane. This will be the first time that the girls and I have flown all by ourselves so I'm starting to get nervous but I just have to be strong for the three of us so I can't think about the things that i'm nervous about.

My basement is slowly drying. I declined the cleaning companies that I had called since they're quoting between $800 and $1,500 to clean up. I have a trash guy coming tomorrow to throw out all of the clothes/christmas stuff/toys that were ruined for about $100 and I'm going to borrow my ex's dehumidifier as soon as he's done with it.

I'm so excited!!!! I mean so far it's been so far away in my mind because I knew I had to get through the monthly close, the birthday parties and Easter but pretty soon it will only be Easter that I have to get through and luckily my sister is doing it this year so I just have to show up and eat the ham!!

Well everyone keep up your enthusiasm!!!

ciao

 

[disneysailor]

goofy601- First of all, good luck with your house, it sounds great! I tried to call Reservations this afternoon to find out about one person making reservations for everyone but I didn't have as good of luck as I had with the last person I spoke with. First of all, I could barely understand her. Basically, she said one person from each room would have to make the reservation but we could request to sit together. However, she ended the call by saying that we'd have to ask on the ship because she really doesn't know. Maybe if someone else calls you can get better information, but by this call I think it would be risky to think the first person there could make everyone's reservation.

bostonlass- I relate to that butterfly thing. Beside being a big worrier anyway, we had a very sad event at the end of our last cruise and I think some of that is surfacing as we're about to embark on this trip. As far as traveling by yourself, I used to fly with the kids on my own a lot when they were little ( you may have realized by now that my husband is a bit of a workaholic, although a really great guy) and I found people were really nice and helpful. I'm sure you'll do great and it will help to give your girls self-confidence when they see that a mom can carry off a big trip all on her own! Have fun with the party, get lots of sleep tonight!

thebets57- Can you come pack for me?

Mrs. Scottohiocpa- It must feel great to be wanted! I hope everything works out the way you want it to with your job. By the way, we scheduled another appt. to get our taxes done tomorrow night, let's hope we have that dumb paper.

sopandbass- I hope your dd is on the road to recovery. Are you a singer too? Are we going to see you perform Karaoke? You should all be relieved to know, I will only be a Karaoke spectator.
Disney1fan2002- We should be landing in Orlando about the same time you leave MA. When does everyone else leave?

Hope everyone is getting their last minute details taken care of. See you in 11 days!

 

[SCOTTOHIOCPA]

We'll be heading to the Cleveland airport with a stop at my parents to drop off our 10 month old Shetland Sheepdog. Our flight is at 12:30 and we arrive at MCO at 3:00. We are hoping to get our rental car and bags in time to drive over to Cocoa in time to see Magic depart. It will be close, but if we miss it, it won't be the end of the world.

Then we're going over to Grill's seafood and having dinner and drinks out on their dock. Then back to the hotel so the kids can go swimming in the cool pool at the Rad. We have to work in a trip to the beach and Ron Jon's somewhere, and then over to the terminal on the 11:30 shuttle. A lot to cram into 24 hours, but hey, I'll get some sleep at work when we get back from vacation.

Scott's countdown to the Mickey ship:
5 more ties!
PS - I am wearing one of my Mickey Mouse ties today, so at least it not as bad as usual.

 

[RSMAEA508]

Sounds like many of us are staying at the Radisson Sat night.
Did everyone get that tip off mousesavers.com like we did?

We also got a good deal on Universal tickets from mousesavers.com using a Mastercard deal.

We are flying out of Long Island Islip Sat morning so we will have a 3 1/2 drive from the Boston area. Providence RI flights on Southwest had sold out within an hour or so of opening up. Has the closed Bridge in Bridgport on I-95 been opened back up?

 

[RSMAEA508]

Sounds like many of us are staying at the Radisson Sat night.
Did everyone get that tip off mousesavers.com like we did?

We also got a good deal on Universal tickets from mousesavers.com using a Mastercard deal.

We are flying out of Long Island Islip Sat morning so we will have a 3 1/2 drive from the Boston area. Providence RI flights on Southwest had sold out within an hour or so of opening up. Has the closed Bridge in Bridgport on I-95 been opened back up?

 

[RSMAEA508]

Sounds like many of us are staying at the Radisson Sat night.
Did everyone get that tip off mousesavers.com like we did?

We also got a good deal on Universal tickets from mousesavers.com using a Mastercard deal.

We are flying out of Long Island Islip Sat morning so we will have a 3 1/2 drive from the Boston area. Providence RI flights on Southwest had sold out within an hour or so of opening up. Has the closed Bridge in Bridgport on I-95 been opened back up?

 

[disneysailor]

RSMAEA508-Yes the bridge is open. Luckily, we don't live near that mess! We got our Universal tickets throught AAA because we're just doing a one day/two park thing. We did get our DisneyQuest tickets through a link from mousesavers.com to ticketmania.com. Unfortunately, we didn't get our airline tickets through Southwest, but got United tickets at $285pp for a crappy flight through Chicago that will take a total of SEVEN hours . Oh well, at least we'll get there eventually!

 

[SCOTTOHIOCPA]

RSMAEA508 - We just happened to find the Radisson on Orbitz. Then we found these boards, and it looked like a good choice.
I understand that you want to gets your number of posts up, but posting the same thing 3 times doesn't count. lol.

Maybe we'll see you at the Rad before we all meet up on the ship at 4:30 at scoops ice cream. We have lime green DIS buttons we'll be wearing. If you don't have buttons, just look for us, or go to the Home Depot and get some "alien green" paint samples and pin them on.

Scott's countdown to the Mickey ship:
5 more ties!

 

[travel with kids]

I just finished my class!! Now, all my time can be devoted to getting ready.

We are leaving Thursday (15th) afternoon. We are going to spend the night in NY @ in-laws, then on Friday drive to...?, we will be at the Radisson Saturday.

Goofy601--good luck with the house. have you heard any news yet?


sopandbass-how is your daughter doing?

....Lee

 

[bostonlass]

disneysailor - how long between the time you ordered the Disneyquest tickets to the time you received them? I didn't realize they are so cheap on mousesavers but it says 8-12 days for free shipping and we're planning on going to Disneyquest next Friday night. When are you going? Maybe we'll see you there.

I can't wait until tomorrow night is over *but* I'm also excited about this party. I think we'll have a blast!!! I just wish my witch of a boss would tell me to take Friday off but noooooooooooooo....I have to work at 1pm to 9pm to make up my hours since I won't make it in that morning. Oh well.....................



ready?.................................


we're going on a Mickey Ship!!!!!!!!
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Has anyone seen the ad for the Toyota Selara convertible where the girl crushes her boss with the top???? LOVE that ad!!!!!

 

[disneysailor]

bostonlass- I don't remember how long it took, but I think there was an option where you could have them delivered to your hotel. We are going Thursday after the cruise. Our flt. is at 5:12 so we won't have too much time. When I ordered them, I had read that DQ opens at 10:00, now I'm seeing 11-11:30. At least we didn't pay full price and we can always enjoy Downtown Disney until they open. Have fun tonight!

See everyone in 10 days!!!!!